Improved neck-pad for horses



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c. J. FISHER, or WAUKoN, IOWA.

Letters .Patent No. 89,646, dated May 4, 1869.

INIPROVED NECK-PAD FOR HORSES.

The Schedule referred to u1 these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom t may concern:

Beit known that I, C. J. FISHER, of Waukon, in the county of Allamakee, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and improved Neck-Pad for Horses; and I do herehy declare that the .following is a full, clear, and

exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this specication, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan or top view of my improved neck-pad; and

Figure 2 is an edgeview of the same.

Similar letters of. reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new device for protecting the necks of horses between the upper ends of the Gollar to prevent galling. For this purpose pieces of leather, cloth, or other material have heretofore been used, but without the desired success. Pads could not he made, as their inner faces could not be kept clear from wrinkles or protuberances, which are more injurious than the omission of a protecting device.

My'invention consists in producing a pad which may be attached to the collar, and which is perfectly smooth on the under side, the leather used on the under side being crimped in order to obtain the desired shape.

A, in the drawing, represents the pad. It is so shaped that it fits a horses neck between the arms of the collar, it being thick on top and tapering toward the ends, as is clearly shown iu fig. 2.

The under side of the pad is'formed by a sheet of leather a, which is crimped in order to have its ends turned up without producing wrinkles; the stnfng in the pad is of hay, or any-other suitable material.

On the outer side of the pad, near the ends of the same, are straps b, b, which are iitted around the collar as indicated in g. 2, to prevent longitudinal displacement of the pad.

On top of the pad is arranged a strap c, under which the end straps d l of the collar may be passed, as in fig. 2, to prevent upward displacement ofthe pad.

I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, as an article of manufacture- The neck-pad, having an inner lining of crimped leather, and provided wit-h straps b c, to allow its being fastened to the collar, as herein shown and described for the purpose specified.

C. J. FISHER.

Witnesses L. O. BEARCE, A. J. Ropenns. 

